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<p>Jesus set the goal for Serve 7: "Love your neighbor as yourself." April 3-10 several Love Rock Hill Churches served our city by doing one year's worth of work, 2080 hours, in one week.<!--more--></p>

<h2>Serve 3 Ways</h2>
<p>For one week we loved our neighbors by serving three different ways.</p>
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	<li><strong>As an individual or family</strong>.<br> What little thing can you do to make a difference? Can you write your child's teacher a thank you note? Bake some cookies for local law enforcement? Mow your neighbor's lawn? Think outside the box and do something small that sends a huge message.</li>
	<li><strong>With a team</strong>.<br> Serve 7 projects built teams to tackle events and projects.</li>
	<li><strong>As the church</strong>.<br> Sunday, April 3, people from all partnering churches came ready to work! After worship services, they participated in city cleanup as one large group from 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM. We picked up trash in the downtown area, parks, and greenways.</li>
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<h2>Here are some stories from Serve 7</h2>
<p><strong>Fonda Ballard, one of the coordinators for the Dream Center block party was thrilled that&hellip;</strong></p>
<blockquote><p>We met a boy name J at the block party. What a special little boy! His personality was infectious! He had a smile on his face continually. He helped out too, along with some other boys from neighborhood. We had drawings for $5 movie gift certificates; well the last $5 certificate went to him. When I handed it to him he said, &ldquo;I have never thought anything like this could ever happen to me.&rdquo; Awesome! It really touched my heart. It was like we gave him a million dollars. Paul, one of our journey group guys, has plans to go to the movies with him soon.</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>Brian Martin, a group leader, from Sunday&rsquo;s beautification project was amazed when&hellip;</strong></p>
<blockquote><p>We actually had a pre-teen boy just jump in and start helping us on Keels Avenue. He craved attention and love. He hugged all of us several time and picked up a lot of trash. We were so touched by him. He even gave all of us candy at the end! His birthday is Wednesday and we are going in together to purchase a basketball goal for him. We should be installing this goal on Wednesday! It is amazing what God can do in just a 2 hour time period with something as easy as picking up trash!</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>Mike Vanscoy, another group leader, from Serve 7 Sunday reflected on his family and said&hellip;</strong></p>
<blockquote><p>What I see now, during my time at NRHC, is a group of people who are engaged in serving their community. My children are starting to really understand things I never understood as a child. In Sunday school, I&rsquo;m sure I heard the same lessons about serving others or putting the needs of others before my own, but we never got up from a lesson and took off into the city to do it, like we did yesterday.</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>Amy Bennet&rsquo;s heart was touched on Serve 7 Sunday when&hellip;</strong></p>
<blockquote><p>Soon after our group started picking up trash a boy and girl (each about 9 years old) began to help us. We gladly accepted their help and introduced ourselves! About ¾ of the way through our route the girl dropped away, and I assumed our team had gone too far from her house. As we finished up our route and rounded the corner back to our car, I spotted her and two other friends all holding garbage bags and cleaning up trash! They were working on a different street where we had not been!</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>Olivia Gregory dropped off Appreciation Muffins to DSS and shared this encouraging note&hellip;</strong></p>
<blockquote><p>I just wanted to let you know that a friend and I took muffins to DSS this morning, and they were a HUGE hit! They opened their card right away and read it, and one of the workers had tears in her eyes as she expressed that no one ever really thanks them. The director came and met me, and she was extremely appreciative! I really think this was a huge way to bless them on a Monday morning!</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>The Miller JG served the hungry on Blackmon Road, and they will never be the same&hellip;</strong></p>
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	<p>I have been to Blackmon Rd. several times and I am ashamed to tell you that I vowed to never come back, for selfish reasons of course.  There were things that I saw last night that touched me more now then they did 10 years ago.  We now have a responsibility to tackle this problem on a daily basis.  I personally do not want the high from “doing something good” to just come and go like so many times before.  The lingering questions of “What do we do now?’’ “Why isn’t anyone helping?” can’t go unanswered.  These PEOPLE cannot just go unrecognized.</p>
	<p>I don’t know what God is doing in each and everyone of your hearts [in the Journey Group], but I pray that he is constantly breaking it for these people.  He hasn’t let me go yet.</p>
	<p>We were talking about how people kept saying, “you guys should feel so good about what you did tonight.”  We don’t agree with that at all- we didn’t feel good for passing out sandwiches one time because we know we can do so much more to help these people. Just a few times isn’t enough.</p>
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